The French 10-year OAT yield rate climbed to 4.90%-4.92%, the highest since 2002. The interest rate spread between France and Germany over the 10-year period widened to between 131 and 149 basis points, just 110 basis points a week ago, and 12-month average was about 75 basis points.
At the peak of the dot-com bubble in 1999, Internet companies accounted for less than 40% of VC funds. Today's AI concentration has more than twice that of that year.
The largest mortgage lender in the United States, United Wholesale Mortgage, just fell to its lowest closing price in history after trading red for an 8th straight month, its longest losing streak ever! $UWM Holdings Corporation(UWMC)$
Only 25 percent of the index component stocks are currently higher than their 50 days. A month ago in mid August, this proportion is still 70 %. Seemingly stable at the index level, but actually a few super giants hold up the whole scene.
The Fed raised interest rates to 3.75%-4.00% on September 16th, which is not the end of the interest rate hike cycle, but more like the prelude. The first rate hike by new Fed chairman Kevin Warsh is likely just an appetizer.
When the 10-year treasury stabilizes by more than 5 percent, the chain effect immediately shows: the 30-year fixed rate has risen to 7.12 percent (the new two-year high), the cost of financing for enterprises and the interest rate of consumer credit are simultaneously tightening. Financial conditions are real-time tightening
The Muse's popularity is really worth not only because Meta has launched another popular AI product, but because Agent is accelerating from concept verification to popular applications. If Agent can achieve scale and popularization like ChatGPT in the future, the demand for AI infrastructure is also expected to spread further from GPU to CPU, server and high-speed networks, driving the entire hardware industry chain to new incremental opportunities.
Core antitrust allegation The lawsuit alleges that the four companies — as competitors — reached an illegal agreement to coordinate and slow the pace of frontier AI development, violating Section 1 of the Sherman Act. The plaintiffs are not arguing that a company cannot slow its own AI development for safety reasons. Their claim is narrower: competitors allegedly collectively agreed to restrain product improvement, meaning consumers could pay the same subscription price but receive slower model upgrades
Prisoner's Dilemma at the Frontier Laboratory The Frontier Laboratory now faces a prisoner's dilemma. No company dares to slow down its pace alone. Because once slowed down, it may lose talent, lose capital, lose power, lose market share. Therefore, if the government takes the initiative and controls the pace uniformly, all participants can work together to reduce the pressure of competition.
The top ten heavyweight stocks of the S&P 500 index have occupied nearly 40% of the market value. Contrast 17% in 2015, in just ten years, the index has evolved from a hundred flowers to a few giants' hands